FEATURED ARTICLES

Two critical administrative positions have been filled at YDS, effective this fall. Maggi Dawn, an accomplished author, musician, and theologian currently at Cambridge University, will join YDS and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music as associate dean for Marquand Chapel. Lucinda A. Huffaker, executive secretary of the Religious Education Association and former director of the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, will join the administration as director of supervised ministries. >Go to story

Dale Peterson: A man for all studentsThe genial Dale Peterson, YDS’s associate dean of student affairs, has been on the job 11 years now. He has already attained a measure of immortality. The Candy Bowl outside his office, and its contents, is known across the wide YDS world. A popular gathering point on the Quad has been sanctified as Peterson’s Knoll. The school’s e-mail communication network is branded with his name: Dale Mail. >Go to story

Students in this year’s graduating class have left YDS with some intriguing plans for the future, both immediate and long-term. As usual, many will pursue further academic studies or fill pulpits in the U.S. But others are headed overseas. A total of 128 students graduated in May, with another 15 expected to graduate in December. >Go to story

YDS awarded $135,000 grant for internshipsYDS’s Supervised Ministries program has been awarded a grant of $135,000 over three years for support of internships, with a special focus on encouraging placement of interns in churches and community programs that welcome and serve the LGBT community. >Go to story

Input sought: alumni use of social media
The fall 2011 issue of YDS’s Reflections magazine will focus on how rapidly growing use of new technologies such as the internet and social media are impacting public virtues, religious values, and the future of our society. How is this "new media" world affecting relationships, family life and even pastoral care and preaching? If you have insights into where the church is, or should be, in this conversation, we would like to hear from you. Please email Reflections Editor Ray Waddle at ray.waddle@yale.edu.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Convocation and Reunions, Oct. 10-12For the first time in recent memory, this year’s Convocation and Reunions will feature addresses by several members of the YDS faculty. Slated to give talks are Miroslav Volf, Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology and founding director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture, and Willis Jenkins, Margaret Farley Assistant Professor of Social Ethics. Also, Robert Wilson, Hoober Professor of Religious Studies and professor of Old Testament, will give an address on the late Brevard Childs, who taught Old Testament at YDS for 41 years. >Go to Convocation and Reunions 2011

ABOUT PEOPLE

“I love to teach! I had so many positive experiences with great teachers at Yale Divinity School. Many encouraged me to consider an academic career, and yet I have felt called to parish settings. There, among people of faith, living out their vocation in the world, I feel called to teach and look forward to every opportunity to do so.” Carol Wade ’03 M.Div., ’04 S.T.M., in an article about her selection as the new dean and rector at historic Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral in Lexington, KY. >Read more About People

FACULTY ON THE ROAD

NEWS FROM QUAD PARTNERS

Trevor Stubbs, principal of the Bishop Gwynne Theological College in Juba, Sudan, visited BDS during the third week of June. Stubbs and his wife, Tina, were responsible for reopening the college two years ago with 15 students following the civil war and an ensuing financial crisis. Now the college has 50 students, has moved into larger quarters, and is financially viable. >Go to story

The Institute of Sacred Music has announced its 2012 Study Tour. All ISM students and full-time faculty will have the opportunity to travel to Greece and Turkey, May 6 - 18, to experience Classical antiquity, Christianity, and Islam through the liturgy, visual arts, music, and literature of these regions. Travels will take the group to theological schools and conservatories, as well as local religious communities. Planning is being shepherded by Vasileios Marinis, assistant professor of Christian art and architecture at the Institute. >Go to story

YDS’s Gifts of a Lifetime initiative can help provide financial certainty in these times of financial uncertainty. With a life-income gift benefiting YDS, such as a charitable gift annuity, you can receive guaranteed quarterly payments from Yale during your lifetime. To learn more about this, other Planned Giving options, and about remembering YDS in your will, please visit http://yale.planyourlegacy.org or call 203-432-5358/800-445-6086